(a) Some of the nutrients are destroyed (vitamins, minerals, amino acids,
etc.). Most conventional nutritionists agree.

(b) All the enzymes are destroyed. Enzymes are essential for proper digestion.
Some enzymes speed up certain digestive processes a millionfold.

(c) The ratios of nutrients are changed. In the case of meat, relatively
more vitamin B6 than methionine is destroyed, leading to atherogenic
free-radical-initiating homocysteine accumulation. In other words, cooked
meat causes heart problems. Cooked meat is also a carcinogen.

(d) Toxic substances are formed. More than 90 toxic substances have been
identified that are formed when a potato is cooked. Some of these toxins
are mutagenic and/or carcinogenic.

(e) Waste material is created.

(f) Cooking food has similar effects to the aging processes in the body.
Cooking ages food very rapidly and very extensively.

(g) The water content of the food changes.

(h) The food's life-energy and life-information are destroyed.

What Happens to a Human Body That Eats Cooked Food

(a) There is a rush of white blood cells towards the digestive tract, leaving
the rest of the body less protected by the immune system. From the point
of view of the immune system the body is being invaded by toxins when cooked
food is eaten.

(b) A general augmentation of white corpuscles in the blood and a change
in the relative proportions of different blood cells. This phenomenon is
called digestive leukocytosis.

(c) Because all the enzymes are destroyed by cooking, the food cannot be
properly digested. In attempting to manufacture the requisite enzymes, an
unnecessary burden is placed on the body. It cannot manufacture all the necessary
enzymes. The result is indigestion and sometimes ulcers. In general, raw
food is so much more easily digested that it passes through the system in
a half to a third of the time it takes for cooked food.

(d) The intestinal flora becomes putrefied (particularly from cooked meat),
resulting in colonic dysfunction, allowing the absorption of toxins from
the bowel. This phenomenon is variously called dysbacteria, dysbiosis, or
intestinal toxemia (toxicosis).

(e) A build-up of toxins and waste material in many parts of the body, including
within individual cells. Some of these toxins and wastes are called lipofuscin,
which accumulates in the skin and nervous system, including the brain. It
can be observed as "liver spots" or "age spots." It is an important aging
process: general toxemia (toxicosis).

(f) Malnutrition at a cellular level. Because such a high proportion of cooked
food consists of wastes and toxins, individual cells don't receive enough
of the nutrients they need.

(g) Tendency towards obesity through overeating. Because the cells don't
get enough nutrients they are so to speak "always hungry" and hence "demand"
more food.

(h) From time to time the body experiences detoxification crises (also called
purification or healing crises). This happens when toxins are released through
the skin or dumped in the bloodstream for elimination by the liver, kidneys,
and other organs. The symptoms may include headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting,
colds, bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, etc.

(i) The body can become so toxic that all kinds of particles, such as pollen,
can cause detoxification crises, called "allergies." About 80 million Americans
suffer from such "allergies."

(j) The immune system, having to deal with the massive daily invasions of
toxins, mutagens, and carcinogens eventually becomes overwhelmed and weakened.
Another important aging process.

(k) Auto-immune diseases (arthritis, rheumatism, bursitis, gout, multiple
sclerosis, etc.). Parts of the body become so clogged with toxins and wastes
that the immune system starts regarding them as foreign invaders that must
be destroyed - the body starts destroying itself. Another important aging
process.

(l) Some of the waste material builds up in the arteries and clogs them leading
to high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, strokes, etc.
- killing nearly half of Americans.

(m) The toxins, mutagens, and carcinogens that build up within cells, eventually
cause some cells to become cancerous - killing nearly a third of Americans.

(n) In general, many of the aging processes are accelerated by cooked food.
(People who switch to raw food often become visibly and physiologically younger.